On April 8th, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt announced the discovery of “The Rise of Aten,” a city in Luxor ...

However, after the English researcher examined this mummy using x-rays, I wasn’t able to refute its results. The mummy that is claimed to be Queen Nefertiti, the wife of King Akhenaten, was first ...

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In a 2017 study in the American Journal of Human Genetics, researchers looked at the ancient DNA of five Canaanites who lived between 3,650 and 3,750 years ago and who were buried in Sidon, an ...

Located near Auxerre, the grand estate once possessed an exorbitant level of wealth, with thermal baths and heated floors Cool Finds Archaeologists say the marble coffin is the first of its kind ...

June 4, 2025 • Movies about musicians love to hit the same melodramatic beats about fame and genius. Important but not quite famous, the '90s indie band Pavement is the exception that unbalances ...

In this undated photo, hieroglyphs are revealed in the three new graves of senior statesmen found in the Dra' Abu al-Naga necropolis area in Luxor, Egypt. (Egypt Ministry of Tourism and ...

Olette-Pelletier called the pro-Ramesses hieroglyphs "propaganda." He identified seven cryptographies, or codes, which assert Ramesses II's authority from 1280 B.C. on. "It was a message from ...

It was returned to the sarcophagus. Only in 1931 was Amenhotep II—whose descendants would include Akhenaten and his likely son Tutankhamun, whose tomb would be discovered in 1922—taken to Cairo.

While his tomb was mostly destroyed, photos showed depictions of funeral furniture carriers and a banquet in hieroglyphics on the surviving walls. Other tombs are from the 18th Dynasty ...